December Update!
We will be teaching up until the last day of school, so attendance continues to be important for your child's success. If you are leaving before the last day of school (Thursday, December 19th, noon dismissal), please let me know ahead of time. This Wednesday is the Christmas Concert and next week will be caroling in the gym! Lots of fun times in the near future!
Science - Students have wrapped up their combined Science units about Building and Testing With a Variety of Materials last week. Next up will be our Hearing and Sound Unit. If you have an expertise in this area and would like to share with students, please contact me through e-mail.
Social Studies - We have been very fortunate to have had four presenters recently, who have presented on the topics of India and Global Citizenship. Over the next couple weeks we will continue to learn about India and then take a bit of a break to learn all about Ukrainian Christmas Traditions in the new year. I am thrilled to be sharing about my personal story with the students, as I am Ukrainian. We will also look at folklore with opportunities to act out traditional stories and learn some traditional Ukrainian dance steps.
Mathematics - As mentioned before, all concepts are continuously readdressed throughout the year. At this time, we are however concentrating on patterns within numbers (skip counting), Multiplication and Division. Please continue to take the time to practice with either cards or dice, basic facts with your child (addition, subtraction and multiplication). Just two minutes a couple times a week will support an improvement in basic facts acquisition.
Language Arts -
I AM SO HAPPY to announce that we beat our reading minutes for September in October! We are currently working on collecting our November data! Have your child show you on their Google Drive how we record this information. They should have two charts; one classroom and one individual.
Book-A-Day - Ask you child about the daily book and which one they voted for on Friday!
Read Aloud - Because of Winn Dixie will be wrapping up shortly. Stay tuned to hear about our next book!
Word Work - Last week we looked at contractions. For the next two weeks we will be putting a pause on our formal Words Their Way Program to continue to focus on contractions as well as a few other specific spelling patterns.
Book Club is in full swing with many groups competed their novel and working on their book report write-ups. This week, feedback will be given to all students so that they can complete their good copies (edited) and prepare for presentations.
Coding - The next couple weeks will also have us visiting the program SCRATCH and completing a couple coding tasks. Feel free to explore the site at home in your free time.
As always if you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me through e-mail. Looking forward to gathering with everyone on Wednesday night for the grade 1 & 3 Christmas Concert!
Mrs. Emily MacQueen
